Penn State plays Florida State in the Orange Bowl in Miami, 8pm on 1-3-06
FSU opened with a punt. PSU punted. FSU punted again. PSU drove 85 yards for a 1st Quarter TD to take a 7-0 lead. Fast forward into the 2nd quarter. FSU gets an 87 yard punt return for a TD to tie the game at 7. FSU forces PSU to a 3 and out. First play after punt is a screen that goes 57 yards for a TD, but FSU misses the extra point wide left, to lead 13-7. PSU punts from midfield after, with the ball downing at the FSU 2. First it appears that FSU is tackled in the end zone for a safety, but a review gives the ball outside the end zone. PSU takes their timeouts, and gets the ball back on a punt at the FSU 40 with 17 seconds to go. Two plays later, Ethan Kilmer catches a 24 yard pass in the right corner of the endzone for a TD, tying the game at 13, and PSU makes the extra point to take a 14-13 lead with 0:06 to go in the half.
PSU leads at the half 14-13. No third quarter scoring. Heck, no 3rd quarter first downs until PSU got one on a penalty with a minute remaining in the quarter. Even the fourth quarter scoring was a safety for PSU and a field goal for FSU. After the Safety and free kick, PSU drove down to the FSU 5, but fumbled the snap on first and goal, and FSU drove back to get a long tying field goal that was barely inside the uprights. PSU got the ball back with 4:40 to go in regulation, and drove down the field to the FSU 15, but PSU missed a 29 yard attempt at the end of regulation to leave the game tied at 16.
The first OT saw no first downs, and long field goal attempts by both teams, first FSU missing wide right, and PSU missing wide left. The 2nd OT saw PSU drive and score a TD by Austin Scott, and FSU followed suit to tie it at 23. The third OT saw FSU go first, and fail to get a first down, missing the field goal off of the right upright. PSU getting the ball got a first down, then kicked a 29 yard field goal that was inside the right upright to win the game 26-23.
PSU dominated statistically, both in numbers of plays run, yards, first downs, and decisively so in rushing yards. But in the end, PSU failed to take advantage of the early time when they had FSU on the run, or late in teh fourth quarter when they were on the run again.
Paterno now leaves with 21 bowl wins, ahead of Bowden with 19, while Bowden still leads the overall I-A win list 359 to 354, although Bowden's were at several schools (40 seasons total, 30 at Florida State) while Paterno's have all come during 40 seasons at PSU.
Penn State finishes 11-1 and will hold on to the #3 ranking overall. Chances are good that the loser of the Rose Bowl will only fall to #2.
The big negative in the game was Junior PSU linebacker Paul Posluzny was hurt in the middle of the 4th quarter during FSU's tying field goal drive, and FSU converted a 3rd down after he was hurt. He was carted to the locker room for x-rays, and carted back out to watch the rest of the game.
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